Senior Technical Manager, Water Resources Engineering

About the role

You will lead tasks related to civil, water resources, and hydrotechnical projects with a focus on a variety of business sectors such as water, water resources, stormwater, industrial, and transportation.

Responsibilities

• Lead staff in developing hydrologic and hydraulic numerical and analytical models using software such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, SWMM and other hydrologic and hydraulic analyses.
• Create civil engineering construction document packages including drawings, specifications, and estimates.
• Oversee construction quality assurance activities and participate in field investigations.
• Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
• Determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Work in a wide range of technical roles from an individual subject matter expert to project managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Prepare technical reports and presentations for clients, regulators, and other stakeholders.
• Lead development and scoping of projects.
• Mentor and direct junior staff in design activities.
• Support and lead business development including existing and new opportunities.
• Support and lead proposal preparation including technical approaches and pricing.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in civil and water resources engineering.
• Professional Engineer certification.
• Proficient knowledge of civil engineering principles, practices, process, design, construction, and the application to environmental permitting related issues.
• Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members.
• Lead design tasks of hydrologic modeling, hydraulic modeling, scour analyses and other related engineering design.
• Lead the preparation of plans and grading design (using Autodesk Civil3D), specifications and cost estimates for construction.
• Ability to coordinate with agency regulators and understand requirements with working knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Ability to direct others in the field such as subcontractors and provide construction quality assurance.
• Effective communication (verbally and written) skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical work week.

Qualifications

• Established leader in area of practice.
• Experience managing mid- to large-sized multidisciplinary projects while employed at a consulting firm.
• Experience managing and mentoring staff.
• Experience leading business development activities.